Graduation Quotes - Page 21

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  You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.15, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

  Tennessee Williams

  Inspirational, Change, Time

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.82, New Directions Publishing

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• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Wise, Meaningful

  "Mark Twain, selected writings of an American skeptic". Book by Mark Twain, 1983.

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• As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.

  Donald Trump

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

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• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• Believe anything is possible and then work like hell to make it happen.

  Julianna Margulies

  Inspirational, Believe, Hell

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• To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Honesty, Integrity

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

  George Santayana

  Wisdom, Diversity, Mind

  George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

  Christopher Reeve

  Positive, Inspiring, Basketball

  Christopher Reeve (1998). “Still Me”, Random House Incorporated

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• Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.

  Conan O'Brien

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  Conan O'Brien's Commencement Address at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, www.dartmouth.edu. June 12, 2013.

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• People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness

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• In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, God

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.26, St. Martin's Press

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• I've never let my school interfere with my education.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

  Attributed in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1946

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• There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

  Oscar Wilde

  Witty, Money, Humorous

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.4, Oscar Wilde

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• I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

  Booker T. Washington

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Booker T. Washington (1901). “An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard”

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  Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Uplifting, Business

  "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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• Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.

  Sloane Crosley

  Inspirational, Funny, Birthday

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  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Inspirational, Dream, Freedom

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• Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, War

  Speech at Mansion House, London, 10 Nov. 1942.

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• You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

  George Bernard Shaw

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "The 8 Best Sound Bites Of Graduation Advice" by Therese Borchard, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2009.

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